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UK's internet registry prepares a £100m windfall for its board members – and everyone else will pay for it
Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath
Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?
Re: Laws lol
>> Getting sent to prison for crime is like attending an advanced seminar in how to be a criminal
Probably not given the number of reoffenders who are promptly picked up
Getting sent to prison for crime is like attending an advanced seminar in how to be a criminal at Trump University!
Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth
Re: Windows 1903 background horror
Screensavers often used by internal comms teams to reinforce key corporate messages
PwC used to periodically reinforce the message that internal comms always pick shitty developers to create their screen savers by ramming though yet another one that causes a P1 because it is a massive resource hog or some such nonsense. I expect they are not alone
Jeff Bezos finally gets .Amazon after DNS overlord ICANN runs out of excuses to delay decision any further
Re: Who will use it?
outside of these hallowed forums who the fuck even uses domain names to request www content. old people just type amazon into the address bar of their browser and let history or their default search provider get them from there to https://www.amazon.[country]/ and everyone else uses the Amazon app on their mobile device.
We may decry the way people consume content with knowing anything about the technical plumbing but nobody else cares and Amazon will carry on catering to wherever the revenue comes from. Seems like a hollow victory for Jeff
Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper
Russian bots are just for rigging US elections? They hit home, too: Kid stripped of crown in TV contest vote-fix scandal
Well they could start by not registering multiple votes from the same number...
They would have to avoid the moral hazard inherent in profit sharing in the premium rate text voting that I assume is part of the economics of these shows in Russia as in the rest of the world.
Far better to just accept that these types of show are light entertainment scripted reality with a similar relationship to truth and competition as pro wrestling and watch them if you enjoy them on that basis or not if you don't. A take-down of the sort of cheating effort alleged is only of any interest in the context of the corrosive impact of similar corruption in wider civil society.
It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'
Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
Re: Elections???
Would this be the election in which 270 humans died, literally *died*, because they were counting votes until they died?
The BBC published a statistical analysis that suggested this was not to far out of line with the normal mortality rate for the sample size over the exposure period. There were some seven million people involved in the election over a period of several days. The analysis was fairly rough and ready and suggested that there were legitimate questions to ask, such as whether an election on this scale in a logistical environment such as the Philippines might be better being staged over a longer period.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48281522
Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)
Re: Bah!
I wonder if all this belt-tightening has put the kybosh on the eagerly awaited automatic pre-collision "YeeeHaaa!" klaxon?
They probably won't be able to afford the royalties for the Slim Pickens sample any more. A shame because segueing into 'We'll Meet Again' post-impact would have also made sense and would have cut down on the costs of audio editing.
obvs-->
Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a
Re: saving battery, preventing accidental interaction when you first put it in
SatNav
I have never experience d a SatNav app that didn't keep the display alive. If you need to start a new journey or modify one that is in progress and do not have a passenger available to do this then sure unlocking with a a fingerprint reader is trivial once you have found somewhere safe to pull over
Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog
Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?
Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system
Age verification biz claims no-payment model for 40% of Brits ahead of July pr0n ban
Re: Business model
My business model is to spam out blackmail emails threatening to expose the receipient for registering for a pr0nz age verification service and claiming to also have a record of their browsing history.
Sometimes a low-tech approach offers a better rate of return than actually going to the trouble of compromising a service and properly targeting your blackmail.
Key to success: Tenants finally get physical keys after suing landlords for fitting Bluetooth smart-lock to front door
Re: "...require GPS to be enabled in order to use the Bluetooth functionality..."
Can someone explain this to me?
Presumably the bluetooth signal opens any lock from that vendor but the app is geo-locked so you can only open one for which you are authorised. Or it might be a requirement of teh ad-network libraries they are using.
Airbnb host thrown in the clink after guest finds hidden camera inside Wi-Fi router
'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco
A[t] the end of the day it was a paid option to have a AOA mismatch warning
If I understood the article correctly, it was saying that the AoA gauge was optional. The AoA disagree alert should have been displayed whenever the condition occurs but in fact would only be displayed if the optional AoA gauge was taken
Apple stock hits bottom ... as AirPod exits man's backside and still works after colonic travels
HPE court witness subjected to own LinkedIn page
Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again
Cool story, brew: Utah karaoke crooners receive cold, refreshing shock as alcohol authority refuses beer licence
Re: me no understand
it sounds to me like a recreational license allows somewhere that isn't a bar to serve drinks incidentally to the main activity of the establishment. This sounds like a bar that specialises in Karaoke wants to operate somewhere that a bar would not be allowed (too close to a church). Whatever one may think of the licensing laws of the state this sounds like an attempt to bypass on a technicality to me.
obvs--->
Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active
Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada
Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it
IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished
What's more amazing is that sales types want to still work for them.
If the figures in the article(s) are the amounts of commission earned, which oracle claws back, which goes to court, which are won, which are reported, then imagine the commission amounts that are in play. Even if only a tiny proportion of the sales force ever stand a chance of earning the big bucks, it is a variable ratio reward schedule, the best kind.
----> like a meth-head but with better teeth---->
Bloke faces up to 20 years in the clink after gun held to dot-com owner's head in robbery
I note that owmyballs.com is privacy protected
I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords
Re: Here have a can of worms...
Presumably, if the plane is over international waters, it's the Law of the Sea, except the US isn't a signatory to that...
Admiralty law you say. There's a FMOTL who can undoubtedly help with that. This kind of lawsuit sounds right up their rabbit hole. Note my lower case nick
Easter is approaching – and British pr0n watchers still don't know how long before age-gates come into force
A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and a cleaner in tears
As Alexa's secret human army is revealed, we ask: Who else has been listening in on you?
Sorry, Elon, your Tesla roadster won't orbit for billions of years
User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?
Woman calls cops on shadowy baddie barricaded in bathroom... to discover: Roomba gone rogue
Brit hacker jailed for strapping ransomware to smut site ad networks
Free online tax filing? Yeah, that'll soon be illegal thanks to rare US Congressional unity
Re: Oh, it's a new tax year here in the UK
I used an accountant to manage the statutory stuff for my PSC, company accounts, payroll employeres liabilities etc. He chucked in a personal tax return within the fee for all of the company officers/shareholders but the return was pretty trivial. I was required to do one for some years about a decade ago when I was employee and it was simple then. The figures all came from P60/P11D plus some trivial investment income. The online form and associated notes led me through it with ease. I think I got a refund of a few hundred pounds most years. I think that was mostly down to a frequently changed company car
Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space
Re: Set up Guide?
Like some fearless users who think the Windows directory and its subdirectories are a mess and need to be rationally organised. You know, put all the .dll's in the dll subdirectory, the .exe's in the exe subdirectory and so on.
Life's too short for that kind of OCD. If it isn't my data and it doesn't contain teh pr0nz then into the recycle bin it goes. Problem solved.